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In nature the three-dimensional structure of a protein is encoded in the corresponding gene. In this paper we describe a new method for encoding the three-dimensional structure of a protein into a binary sequence. The feature of the method…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Naoto Morikawa

Inverse protein folding, the process of designing sequences that fold into a specific 3D structure, is crucial in bio-engineering and drug discovery. Traditional methods rely on experimentally resolved structures, but these cover only a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-27 Igor Melnyk , Aurelie Lozano , Payel Das , Vijil Chenthamarakshan

Recent advancements in machine learning techniques for protein folding motivate better results in its inverse problem -- protein design. In this work we introduce a new graph mimetic neural network, MimNet, and show that it is possible to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-09 Moshe Eliasof , Tue Boesen , Eldad Haber , Chen Keasar , Eran Treister

In this study, we propose an analytic statistical mechanics approach to solve a fundamental problem in biological physics called protein design. Protein design is an inverse problem of protein structure prediction, and its solution is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-26 Tomoei Takahashi , George Chikenji , Kei Tokita

A new general algorithm for optimization of potential functions for protein folding is introduced. It is based upon gradient optimization of the thermodynamic stability of native folds of a training set of proteins with known structure. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ole Winther , Anders Krogh

We present an efficient algorithm to recover the three dimensional structure of a protein from its contact map representation. First we show that when a physically realizable map is used as target, our method generates a structure whose…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Michele Vendruscolo , Edo Kussell , Eytan Domany

The recent breakthrough of AlphaFold3 in modeling complex biomolecular interactions, including those between proteins and ligands, nucleotides, or metal ions, creates new opportunities for protein design. In so-called inverse protein…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-22 Kai Yi , Kiarash Jamali , Sjors H. W. Scheres

Predicting the final folded structure of protein molecules and simulating their folding pathways is of crucial importance for designing viral drugs and studying diseases such as Alzheimer's at the molecular level. To this end, this paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-28 Alireza Mohammadi , Mark W. Spong

The ability to computationally generate novel yet physically foldable protein structures could lead to new biological discoveries and new treatments targeting yet incurable diseases. Despite recent advances in protein structure prediction,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-28 Kevin E. Wu , Kevin K. Yang , Rianne van den Berg , James Y. Zou , Alex X. Lu , Ava P. Amini

One of the most puzzling and unsolved challenges in molecular biology is understanding how proteins fold. Despite having advanced predictive tools that can accurately estimate the native structures of proteins, we still lack a comprehensive…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-13 Jorge Vila

Many researches have been working on the protein folding problem from more than half century. Protein folding is indeed one of the major unsolved problems in science. In this work, we discuss a model for the simulation of protein…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-11-20 A. Mucherino , O. Seref , P. M. Pardalos

Novel numerical techniques, validated by an analysis of barnase and chymotrypsin inhibitor, are used to elucidate the paramount role played by the geometry of the protein backbone in steering the folding to the correct native state. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cristian Micheletti , Jayanth R. Banavar , Amos Maritan , Flavio Seno

Repeat proteins are made with tandem copies of similar amino acid stretches that fold into elongated architectures. Due to their symmetry, these proteins constitute excellent model systems to investigate how evolution relates to structure,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-12 Ezequiel A. Galpern , Jacopo Marchi , Thierry Mora , Aleksandra M. Walczak , Diego U. Ferreiro

Circular permutation connects the N and C termini of a protein and concurrently cleaves elsewhere in the chain, providing an important mechanism for generating novel protein fold and functions. However, their in genomes is unknown because…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-17 T. Andrew Binkowski , Bhaskar DasGupta , Jie Liang

We present and discuss a novel approach to the direct and inverse protein folding problem. The proposed strategy is based on a variational approach that allows the simultaneous extraction of amino acid interactions and the low-temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Flavio Seno , Cristian Micheletti , Amos Maritan , Jayanth R. Banavar

Inverse protein folding is challenging due to its inherent one-to-many mapping characteristic, where numerous possible amino acid sequences can fold into a single, identical protein backbone. This task involves not only identifying viable…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-08 Kai Yi , Bingxin Zhou , Yiqing Shen , Pietro Liò , Yu Guang Wang

Proteins are the basic building blocks of life. They usually perform functions by folding to a particular structure. Understanding the folding process could help the researchers to understand the functions of proteins and could also help to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-10-21 Jianzhu Ma

Understanding the principles of protein folding is a cornerstone of computational biology, with implications for drug design, bioengineering, and the understanding of fundamental biological processes. Lattice protein folding models offer a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-08 Shoummo Ahsan Khandoker , Estelle M. Inack , Mohamed Hibat-Allah

Predicting protein structure from amino acid sequence is one of the most important unsolved problems of molecular biology and biophysics.Not only would a successful prediction algorithm be a tremendous advance in the understanding of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-06-15 K. K Senapati , G. Sahoo , D. Bhaumik

Modelling and predicting protein configurations is crucial for advancing drug discovery, enabling the design of treatments for life-threatening diseases. A critical aspect of this challenge is rotamer optimisation - the determination of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Anastasia Agathangelou , Dilhan Manawadu , Ivano Tavernelli